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WEST HARTFORD — The 23-year-old Hartford man shot and killed by a woman who said he had repeatedly threatened to kill her and her children had a history of violence toward women, records show. Jose A. Mendez, also known as "Bebo," had served prison time for assaulting a girlfriend in Hartford and had a case pending against him in connection with a similar incident in East Hartford. In both of those cases, police said, Mendez threatened to kill the girlfriends and their children. In the Hartford case, he subsequently violated a criminal protective order that he stay at least 100 yards from the woman and her child. Police noted in both cases that the women expressed genuine...

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